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Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to [Dormant] moved to !space@mander.xyz@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

We’re about to fly a spacecraft into the Sun for the first time

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We’re about to fly a spacecraft into the Sun for the first time

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Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to [Dormant] moved to !space@mander.xyz@lemmy.world · 5 months ago
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“Quite simply, we want to find the birthplace of the solar wind.”…
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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    Finally, we’re sending somebody to save those brave helium miners.

    • BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works
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      https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100680

      Just gonna leave this here 😉

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    Into the Sun’s atmosphere, not into the Sun.

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      We’ll see what happens I guess.

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    ;_;7

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      That’s cute af, how have I never seen that before

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    Please let Elon Musk be on board. Please!

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      No need to waste a good scientific mission.

      We can deal with him (and other oligarchs and their collaborators) on earth.

      • Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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        Soylent billionaires: food for the rich.

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          The rich will happily eat each other. Musk has made it abundantly clear that they are trying to make one person have all the wealth

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      Elon has too much mass, couldn’t do it on NASA’s budget.

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    Think they will find Icarus 1 on the way there?

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      I can hear that distress beacon.

  • David From Space@orbiting.observer
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    Hey, my name is on that probe! Good luck with the solar plunge little dude!

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    Even Sun can’t have some privacy nowadays.

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      Right up in there, no lube, nuthin

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    Oh no! What if it pops!?

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      Don’t be silly, it’ll gently inflate and then float away carried by the heat waves.

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      galactic fart noise

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    The sun was flat and we didn’t expect it!

    \s

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    “into the sun”

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    Is xelon going to be on it??? please please please please please

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